Thoughts on Education Policy

Starting this morning, I'm going to introduce a new feature on this blog: education roundtables.  The basic premise is that I'm goin...

Earlier , I wrote a post pointing out that Teach For America members can do a lot of good after their two-year commitment is up even if they...

Eduwonk writes that the number of people signed up for Teach for America's upcoming summit "should put to rest the idea that corp...

I was struck by  this NY Times piece  discussing a recent report  by the National Academy of Sciences on longevity in the US and other natio...

With all the discussion surrounding the need to fire "bad teachers" these days, I wish we could take a step back and examine how m...

Last week, we had 3.6 inches of snow in Nashville (2.5 inches on Monday morning, .6 inches on Tuesday, .4 inches in Wednesday, and .1 inches...

The NY Times today profiles some fairly reasonable, and minor, changes to the way tenure is granted to teachers in NYC (principals a.) have...

The commentariat seems to agree on two things regarding American schools: that they're not good enough and that students need to be lear...

After NYC hired an outsider (Joel Klein) to run their schools, Pittsburgh decided to hire an outsider as well (Mark Roosevelt).  Both leader...

Stephen Sawchuck reports that a new report on value-added scores compares them to measures in other fields, including batting averages in ...